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Considering the character of his job, it is no shock that Braston Gray loves animals.
Spend a couple of minutes with the conversant Gray — who has simply accomplished his first week because the Corinne T. Smith Animal Center’s new director — it is rapidly apparent that Gray, a 2010 Bangs High School graduate, additionally will get on properly with folks.
In the animal center’s busy foyer Friday afternoon, the 29-year-old Gray chatted up the employees and engaged guests in simple dialog. Noting the windy situations outdoors, Gray informed a customer that he’d simply moved right here from Lubbock, and the customer replied that she lately moved from Amarillo.
Gray beforehand labored for the city-run Lubbock Animal Services, and determined to return residence. Gray’s dad and mom are retired state trooper Martin Molotsky and Deedra Molotsky, who supervises the City of Brownwood’s emergency dispatch heart.
Growing up in Bangs, Gray stated, he had at all times liked animals. “My dad and mom at all times referred to me as Ace Ventura, as somebody that will go and wrangle up all of the native wildlife or deliver stray cats residence and attempt to give all the pieces a house,” Gray stated. “That did not at all times fly over too properly with my dad and mom however I at all times tried, so I used to be at all times type of the animal whisperer for a very long time.”
Gray stated he was “at all times the one who wished to deliver one thing bizarre residence,” which did not essentially meet along with his dad and mom’ approval.
In 2013, Gray determined to maneuver to Lubbock, the place he labored for a furnishings transferring firm. In 2016, he took a job with Lubbock Animal Service, the place he “dealt with all the pieces from shelter duties to subject duties, sometimes coaching new employees, all types of issues like that,” Gray stated. “We did a variety of modifications round 2018. The shelter went from a excessive kill shelter virtually to no kill just about in a single day.”
But Gray determined he’d had sufficient of huge metropolis life.
“I had the chance to maneuver again to Brownwood slightly below a month in the past and this place got here accessible,” Gray stated. “I utilized for it, prayed lengthy and laborious about it and now I’m capable of sit right here.”
Gray added that he was “coming again it doesn’t matter what, and I noticed this place open up. I stated I’d be insane if I did not at the very least apply and I’m very blessed to be sitting right here.”
When Gray discovered he was being provided the director’s job, he had “a variety of feelings,” Gray stated. “I felt very lucky and blessed. However I understood the seriousness of tackling the issues with overcrowding and ensuring animals have been adopted from the ability.”
Reflecting extra on his love of animals, Gray stated, “I feel my dad and mom have been at all times massive animal lovers too, and I think about that simply rubbed off on me. A number of it got here from my dad and mom and a variety of it got here naturally too. I like all the pieces. If it is received eight legs, no legs, 4 legs, three legs, lined in scales, fir, fins or what have you ever, I simply adore it all.”
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